SLP301 Bitcoin Mining Pools Decentralised? A Discussion with Pavel Moravec of SlushPool & Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool

How should Bitcoin mining be structured? Pavel Moravec of SlushPool (Braiins) and Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool join me to chat. We discuss:

• Why pools exist
• How to structure mining pools
• Trade offs around decentralisation of pools
• Coinbase payouts vs other ways
• Lightning payouts
• Scalability for mining pools
• Stratum v2

Links:

• Pavel Moravec: @mor_pav
• Braiins Twitter: @braiins_systems
• Braiins site: Braiins.com | Bitcoin Mining Company
• Laurentia Pool Twitter: @laurentiapool
• Site: LaurentiaPool.org
• Laurentia pool post: Laurentia Pool: Pooled “Decentralization”
• Braiins twitter thread on decentralisation: https://twitter.com/braiins_systems/status/1423291322128011264

Sponsors:

• Hodl Hodl Lend
• Compass Mining
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links: 

• Notes and website
• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera